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Poncho Sanchez is playing at the theater downtown. The thought of sitting in a 100+ year old theater surrounded by a bunch of old farts like me does not appeal to me in the least! The old cast iron steam radiators still heat the place and like all of those old buildings, it's about 85 degrees in there.I guess I'll watch "Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba" to make me feel better.
I think I just figured out soemthing that's been bugging me since we moved in. Every time a circuit breaker pops we can never get it to turn on. We call the guy that built the house and he walks over and flips it back on with no trouble.
I've just been thinking that you have to flip it backwards (seemingly) to ON and THEN flip it off and then back on. I'll try that...it's so embarrassing when we call him and he just flips it on like there was no problem to begin with! Grrrrr!
If there's something I'm not doing right and this doesn't work, let me know!
And yes, if you need to do so you can giggle about us!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Follow Ups:
I had to take a "pass" on a vintage music/record trade show yesterday so I could spend almost 7 hours shoveling the almost 5 foot snowdrifts (plural) from my roof.And then shoveling that snow from the sidewalk and out into the yard.
And then shoveling/blowing all of the snow away from my foundation so it doesn't drain into my basement this spring....
I'm a little tired today.
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
then you don't need to worry about doing any of it!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
We're completely sunned in today.
Nice turn of a phrase!And btw, I stopped-in @ NAPA today and took care of the Beatles albums for you. We're cool.
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
It looked like we were completely sunned in, but the door opened quite easily. Then I discovered we're actually experiencing a static electricity storm, thanks to the winds and lack of humidity.
I got it covered. I figured I owed you at least that much for that shipping mix-up and all of your cross-town driving....But look at it this way: Next time we'll have our act together!
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
I'll set it right.
I realize it was a small order, and maybe even a PITA due to my questions, so I'll tell you what- buy me a rack o' ribs and a beer or three @ Ribfest and we'll call it even!
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
None of it is in the basement (except through the glass blocks). I am working on updating my Jazz spread sheet. I've added/culled hundreds of LPs without keeping it current. I'm paying for that lazyness now, but it will get me in touch with my collection again, I have to look at every LP and put a check mark on the print out if I have it listed, make a mark if I don't PLUS write down the info to enter later, AND correct any mistakes by making a mark to remind me to make those changes.Lots and lots of work ahead. It would be nice to have a cold beer, but NOOOO, my fridge down here isn't working, dammit!
But the work, as I said, will put me in touch with everything again! I can't tell you how many times I've said, "Where'd that come from?" O.K., I'll tell you, lots of times!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
I caught it from you.And, yes, you have to 'reset' tripped circuit breakers bypushing them on, off, then on again. If you notice, they don't even always look tripped. I run a finger or fingers down the row of breakers and feel for the wiggly switch. Unless you turn a breaker off yourself, it doesn't go to the "off" detent.
MM,If the breakers are Square D or the like, the reset is not as simple as click fully off, then click to on. The breaker reset is push to off, then push back until you feel a second click, this is the re-cocking the breaker spring and moving the contacts back past the spring catch. At least you don't have to pump up the spring mechanism like we do at work for the big 250 to 1000 amp breakers....
Pete [arc flash] S.
Disturbed is a life style...deal with it.
Try flipping the breaker off and then back on. When they trip, they
have to be reset. Going froma tripped state to on usually does
not work. The real question is...why are you tripping breakers
to begin with??
.........If a breaker trips the little switch is down. All I need do is flick it to the up position to reset it.Of course this only works in the Land Downunder maybe?
OP Rum will help clear the sinuses and clear the head.
Smile
They are the same as Bermuda. Here they don't look so decorative unfortunately. Seriously, those are quite nice aesthetically *grin*.The boring North American ones do indeed need to be flipped fully off before being flipped back on. It can be hard to see if a breaker is off sometimes as well because of the dark colour.
But I know that if I call for help, he'll just walk in here and flip, flip...the little fridge will be running again.None had to be pushed farther to "on", but all did have an extra "oomph" to the off side before flipping it back on again. I flipped the switch to the off position, then pushed it a bit further. More effort was needed than just to flip it off...say another lb. of pressure. Then I turned it on again.
Nothing.
Every time we have decided that something's wrong with the breaker or the septic pump (this time it's not the septic pump), Steve's come over and with no trouble, flipped it on again! I'm getting pissed! I want fuses! Technology sucks, and don't try to tell me that fuses were once advanced technology, fuses showed that technology had moved forward far enough, dammit!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
See da show!
...but I thought that all one does is move it to "off", then back to "on".
Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.
BUT - a simple push to full "off" & then reset (on) usually works
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
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